Veteran

Squad Leader days, Parris Island, SC

Signing up for that bug-filled, scream session of rapid tear-down and rebuild was one of the greatest decisions ever. Good friends made, hilarious memories and stories stories stories to tell for life.

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MOS 4311 — Illustrator

Yep, believe it. Even the military branches have media departments and training facilities, even administrative offices that flat-out need graphic designers for tons of stuff. I first met Photoshop in 1991 when it was a baby of a product to the graphics world.

Course schedule at Lowry Technical Training Center

Introduction to Graphics, 40 hrs
Basic Illustration, 80 hrs
Design, Color and Media, 72 hrs
Lettering and Text Layout, 88 hrs
Visual Communications, 104 hrs
Animation, 68 hrs

Honor Graduate, Meritorious promotion

Technical training school was at Lowry Technical Training Center. Meritorious promotion to E-3 awarded uniform insignia upgrade to Lance Corporal. A small ceremony at the school took place the morning of the flight out of Colorado.

HQ Support Battalion

Volunteer artist

Cartoon for the Globe to use as a filler somewhere

This is how we're doin' it this mornin, men!

Volunteer cartoon for the Globe Newspaper

"I'll have the uh...the...no wait... when did that come out? ...I'll have..I'll...Is that fresh?...I'll have the...

I provided free cartoons to the on-base newspaper, The Globe. It was fun to get noticed and was a smart strategy to ensure getting published. The military newspaper had a production room with an editor happy to accept free cartoons for fillers.